From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 04:33:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: pkspam@home.com (Phil K) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Date: 7 Jun 2001 04:33:41 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9c4284ee.0106070333.45452ada@posting.google.com> References: <3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.134.198.251 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 991913622 2935 127.0.0.1 (7 Jun 2001 11:33:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jun 2001 11:33:42 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10444 comp.lang.ada:8297 comp.lang.awk:2840 comp.lang.clarion:21296 comp.lang.java.programmer:74363 comp.lang.pl1:839 comp.lang.vrml:3581 Date: 2001-06-07T11:33:42+00:00 List-Id: 00001111 <00001111@my-deja.net> wrote in message news:<3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net>... > Hi All, > > Anybody use variables/names longer than 31 character > and finds it really useful ? > > Then please respond why, where, when. > I have folks here in comp.lang.fortran who will die claiming that they > > - "never seen a well written, legible program > that uses any identifiers longer than 18-20 characters..". > - "long variables names are *hard* to read. And, you have to > read though all the characters of every instance of them...". > - "it degrades the legibility of a program to use identifiers that > can't be easily remembered...." > > As a result, despite 90% of computer languages have long, very > long or 'infinite' identifiers, fortran folks seems plan to stay > with their 6...aargh ...sorry this was just not far ago... 31 character > limit intil year 3000. > > cheers Anyone who has worked on a code generator has probably found that generated names are often longer than expected. They often contain class, method, and context information, which often leads to more than 31 characters. They have probably also found that making readable code from a generator is not always the easiest thing to do. At the same time though, those long names often make it absolutely clear where the names came from. You know exactly which file and often where in the file it came from. -PK